Mahal - 30 x 40 in
Finally getting around to sharing this one! This piece is the heart of my current collection of paintings I’ve been working on. Visiting the land of my people, I felt like I could reach through the ground and the sand and embrace the loved ones I’ve lost to time. I incorporated some motifs from piña cloth, in attempts to visualize the ancestral ties weaving into the present moment. I felt it everywhere I went, so I wanted to add a few pictures I took in the Philippines as well to share the heart + soul of the land with you. 🤍
This triptych, ‘Visions,’ is a piece that is very personal to me. When visiting the Philippines, we spent some time briefly in my late grandparents’ home. While it was mostly empty, we found some photographs left in an old wooden hutch, of which included a number of images of me and my siblings.
I found myself reflecting on the ways in which we connected to one another in the afterlife. The last time I saw my grandparents, I was still a child- unable to speak the language of my people. We connected to one another through smiles, a hug, a warm meal. The ways we connected then echoed into the afterlife; while I cannot speak to them, I see them through my environment. Noticing butterflies, birds, and dragonflies recalled memories of seeing my grandfather peeking around the corner to watch my cousins and I dancing to traditional Filipino songs during our first visit to the Philippines. Seeing our loved ones in our surroundings is such a beautiful human experience.
Last slide is my family seeing this piece for the first time! 🩷
So beyond grateful to show my art among so many other incredibly talented artists in the 2026 Prism exhibition with @artlink_phoenix !! Painting in preparation for this show has been such a wonderful experience, and so happy I got to share my ethos of joy & connection with the Phoenix art community. 🩷
So much love is imbued in these recent paintings that I am thrilled to debut at the Art d’Core Gala & PRISM exhibition running through the month of March. I’ll be sharing them here as we gear up for the gala on Saturday!
I began working on this series of paintings early January, inspired by my time in the Philippines this past winter. It was my first time visiting in over 15 years, and I was confronted with both immense grief and joy. Having half your soul live across the ocean is an odd feeling, but this moment of homecoming I could feel it pouring out of me. This particular piece, titled ‘Rooted’ was inspired by a morning on Anguib beach, feeling the joyful memory of the land pulsing through the sand and water beneath me. I incorporated a motif from an Ilocano weaving technique called ‘pinilian,’ where the weft is used to create raised patterns. Back in 2021, my mom gifted me a weaving with this design on it, and I kept envisioning it each laugh I shared with my cousins. Mahal ko ang Pilipinas! :,)
Come see my paintings at the Biltmore Fashion Park and step into these little love portals! <3
limelight - 30 x 24 in
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Joy as an act of resistance. Alchemizing the feeling of needing to run away into celebrating oneself. Allowing the light to shine upon you, even when you want to hide.
felt inspired to make some art after the 2hollis show in az! here’s the progress i made on this one during my lunch break :)
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softer on the inside
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some digital art experimentation!
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Veil - 22 x 28 in
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been dancing with this one for a while <3
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been gently plugging away at this one for some time :) playing with textures and learning different techniques
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